Recognizing the global growth of ebooks as well as the significant U.S. ebook market, Simon & Schuster has created a new senior-level position dedicated to developing the publisher’s worldwide ebook business. Doug Stambaugh will fill the role as vice president …
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HarperCollins Audience Development Director Jim Hanas: Finding an Audience, Book-by-Book
Like his new boss, HarperCollins chief marketing officer, Jim Hanas is a publishing industry outsider; in some ways, however, he’s the ultimate insider. We spoke with Hanas about moving from online media to books, how he plans to help HarperCollins find an audience for each of its titles and how Digital Book World helped him get a leg up in digital publishing.
Kobo CEO Mike Serbinis: Doubling Down on E-Readers and International Expansion
Atria Publisher Judith Curr: Publishers Need to Experiment With Digital Content
President of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management Jane Dystel: Agents Unwilling to Adapt Won’t Last
Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler on the Future of Discoverability and Social Reading
Reorganization at HarperCollins Christian Publishing Leaves Mix of Zondervan and Thomas Nelson Execs in Charge
Random House Snags Open Road Executive, Former Scholastic Prez Barbara Marcus to Lead Children’s Publishing
Scholastic’s Hit-Maker David Levithan on Hunger Games, Digital Reading and Transmedia
HarperCollins Chief Digital Officer Chantal Restivo-Alessi: ‘Essential’ for Publishers to Take Risks
Kobo’s Michael Tamblyn: ‘Publishers Should Experiment More’
Random House Promotes Four Senior VPs, Bolstering Digital
HarperCollins CMO Angela Tribelli: The Outsider
It might just take a publishing industry outsider to solve the current marketing challenges facing publishers. We spoke with Angela Tribelli, the new HarperCollins chief marketing officer who comes from outside the industry, about marketing analytics, the recent sales reorganization at HarperCollins, and why publishers need to think more like direct marketers.
HarperCollins Restructures Sales Force to Focus on Digital and Analytics
Nicholas Callaway Steps Back at Callaway Digital Arts as Company Closes New York Office
Madeline McIntosh Promoted to Chief Operating Officer of Random House
Discoverability and Marketing Are Publishing Company Differentiators, Says Perseus CMO
Smashwords CEO Mark Coker: Indie Authors Need to Become Great Publishers
A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for an author to self-publish their own work and distribute it to half a dozen of the leading bookstores. Today, tens of thousands of people are doing it. How things have changed. One of the people responsible for this revolution in publishing is Mark Coker, the founder and CEO of Smashwords.
Sourcebooks Appoints Barbara Briel First Chief Operating Officer
Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah: ‘Data Works Better Than Your Gut’
Sourcebooks has been growing at a healthy clip in the past few years and has gotten a reputation as a cutting-edge publisher. We spoke with Sourcebooks CEO Dominique Raccah about using data in book publishing, Sourcebooks’s approach to e-book pricing and why it’s important to sell books directly to readers.
Simon & Schuster Chief Digital Officer Ellie Hirschhorn on Inventing the Future of Publishing
Do you have to be a part of book publishing’s past to help invent its future? The infusion of technology into books has given technologists who may have not been veterans of the book business of old a foothold in the book business of the future. The best example might be Ellie Hirschhorn, executive vice president and chief digital officer at Simon & Schuster.
